Street Children

I'm sure I'm not overstating the case to say that there are 1000's of children on the streets of Jakarta who are sent out everyday to beg. These are children who need to be in school....! Perhaps their parents cannot provide for the family and need the help of the children, or perhaps the children have been abandoned by family. It's hard to know the facts of the individual cases; but, it is not unusual to have children tap on the car door window and ask for money while you are stopped at a traffic light. Sometimes they sing, sometimes they play a crude instrument, and sometimes they just show a pitiful face. Begging is illegal in Jakarta; but, it happens. These children are probably too old now to be trained to live a different life style. What I'd like to do, one of these days, is to open a home where smaller unwanted or neglected children could be given a home, education, salvation and a real hope for a future. Jesus will ask us at that last day, "Have you fed the hungry, clothed the naked, visited the fatherless?" I'd like to be able to answer, "Yes"; because, whatever we do for these children, we do for Jesus himself. If we were to do something like this would you be willing to help?

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